5 Key Facts About Medicaid Expansion
This issue brief examines Medicaid expansion enrollment and Medicaid spending in expansion and non-expansion states and describes the characteristics of adults covered by the Medicaid expansion.
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What Does the Future Hold for Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative (EHE)?
Policy WatchThis analysis examines what the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative has done to date and what its future might look like under the second Trump administration.
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Medicare Program Integrity and Efforts to Root Out Improper Payments, Fraud, Waste and Abuse
Issue BriefThis brief explains fraud, waste, abuse, and improper payments in Medicare and describes actions to ensure Medicare program integrity.
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10 Key Facts About the U.S. Global Health Response
Fact SheetProvides ten key facts about the U.S. global health response, as it was before the Trump administration began.
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Poll: With More Than Half the Public Saying They or a Family Member Have Been Covered by Medicaid, Large Majorities Don’t Want Cuts, Including Most Trump Voters and Rural Residents
News ReleaseAs Congress considers changes to the Medicaid program as part of the budget debate, relatively few (17%) in the public say they want to see a reduction in Medicaid spending, with larger shares saying they want spending to stay about the same (40%) or increase (42%), a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds.
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5 Key Facts About Medicaid Program Integrity – Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Improper Payments
Issue BriefProgram integrity efforts work to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse, to increase program transparency and accountability, and to recover improperly used funds. This brief explains what is known about improper payments and fraud and abuse in Medicaid and describes ongoing state and federal actions to address program integrity.
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A Medicaid Per Capita Cap: State by State Estimates
Issue BriefThis analysis examines the potential impacts on states, Medicaid enrollees, and providers of implementing a per capita cap on federal Medicaid spending, which is one proposal that has been discussed in Congress. Such a plan could decrease federal Medicaid spending by $532 billion to almost $1 trillion over a 10-year period, depending on how states respond. An estimated 15 million people could lose Medicaid coverage by 2034.
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What Does the Federal Government Spend on Health Care?
Issue BriefAs Congressional Republicans and President Trump search for trillions of dollars in cuts to mandatory federal spending that could help offset the cost of extending expiring tax cuts, this brief analyzes current support from the federal government for health programs and services, including both spending and tax subsidies as context for those federal budget discussions.
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U.S. Global Health Budget Figures
Issue BriefThese figures provide a general overview of U.S. funding for global health.
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KFF Health Tracking Poll: Views of the One Big Beautiful Bill
FeatureThis poll finds two-thirds of the public view the "One Big Beautiful Bill" legislation unfavorably, and its favorability erodes further when people hear about its potential health impacts. As Congress debates changes to Medicaid and the ACA as part of the bill, each program's popularity is at a record high.